What's the best version of Hi-jack?
Kinetic
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I only recently "discovered" this tune - yes, i realise I have now acquired little dude status for life - but I am now realising there a quite a few versions of this number around.I've heard the Barabas version and I have a shitty budget aussie version too, and I hear Herbie Mann's is pretty good. But really though, is there are really, really good one to get? Skool me AKA paging Reynaldo (since it has a latin-y vibe)
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Yeah Light has a version. That's the one that was used by the Beatnuts.
ahh what album is Enoch Light's version on? I'd like to hear that.
It's this one: DIsco Disque
http://www.soulstrut.com/reviews/review/review_insert.php?item_id=1231
Nice one mowtwn. Thanks for that.
So no other noteworthy Hi-Jack covers to speak of? Seams like the kinda track that might be on some $100 private jazz-funk or Latin record, not that I want to pay that much for it or anything!
(The other rendition I've heard was on some cheesy package called Disco '75, which was a collection of fake versions of then-current hits advertised on TV. Still turns up in used stores occasionally. Don't have the album, so I don't know who the artist is, if they were identified.)
That's the Enoch Light LP.
Additionally, Herbie Mann is vastly underrated. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Yeah, it's on at least 2 EL records.
Pretty sure he's talking about one of those Homestead exploito records... I know there's a version on one of them (I remember liking that version, and there was a Lowdown on that record too I believe). The Light has 'disco' in the title but not '75'
On both Disco Disque and Big Hits Of The 70s.
That's EXACTLY what I'm talking about. I sincerely doubt if Enoch Light was involved.
Somehow, I don't think so, as this album would have come out at the tail end of '75 and "Lowdown" was well into 1976. But Homestead/TNJ used to put out one or two of these albums a year, so "Lowdown" could have been on another of those elpees.